David Plante MD, PhD

Dr. David T. Plante is a clinician-scientist with a broad background in sleep and psychiatric research that has shaped his translational perspectives on biomedical investigation. He attended medical school at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, during which time he conducted basic circadian research on cryptochrome in the laboratory of Dr. Aziz Sancar, sponsored by the Howard Holderness Fellowship. Dr. Plante subsequently completed a residency in Adult Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General/McLean Hospital program in Boston, MA.

Dr. Plante then completed a clinical sleep medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, followed by a dedicated research year sponsored by a physician-scientist training award from the American Sleep Medicine Foundation (ASMF), under the mentorship of Dr. John Winkelman. Since coming to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010, Dr. Plante has continued to conduct translational research at the sleep-psychiatry interface, sponsored by Research Awards from the ASMF, Brain and Behavioral Research Foundation, and NIH.